Energy Resources & Access

Leadership Grant Grant

Director of Service Learning for Green Empowerment, Year 2

To provide a second year of funding for Jason Selwitz as Director of the Service Learning Department. Green Empowerment (GE) works with NGO partners in developing countries in southeast Asia and Latin America to develop renewable energy and...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Promoting Clean Energy and Good Jobs in the Western States, Year 1

This grant was made to The Apollo Alliance to hire Jeremy Hays as one of its two Western States organizers. Jeremy's responsibilities will include establishing, supporting, and guiding state level coalitions of environmental, labor, civil...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Climate Adaptation Strategies in the Puget Sound

To hire Lara Hansen as a consultant to work jointly with American Rivers and the Sierra Club on implementing climate change adaptation measures in the Puget Sound region. Lara will be the resource person on climate adaptation strategies...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Renewable Energy in Southeast Asia

Chris Greacen will work with rural villages in southeast Asia to design and build renewable energy systems, and to work with government policy makers and local & international NGOs to challenge environmentally destructive energy development...
March 29, 2010
Foundation News

Climate Change Adaptation (Switzer Webinar Series)

Switzer Fellow Dr. Lara Hansen and her colleague, Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, both of EcoAdapt, presented their work on climate change adaptation and the challenges faced by practitioners and resource managers. Drs. Hansen and Hoffman also...
March 23, 2010
Fellow

Andrew Dasinger

1989 Fellow
Andrew is currently a Policy Analyst in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions, which is responsible for expanding the commercial impact and public benefit of DOE's RDD&D portfolio to advance the economic, energy...
Fellow

Joan Heredia

1993 Fellow
Joan Heredia currently works throughout the U.S. to develop and promote renewable energy faciliites. She is the Director of Environmental Compliance and Regulatory Services at Enel Green Power North America with oversight responsibilities...
Fellow

Warren Byrne

1992 Fellow
Warren started his own consulting firm, SEE Inc. (Society, Economics & Environment), after three years experience in environmental and business management consulting with Booz, Allen & Hamilton. He brings his Booz, Allen experience in...
Fellow

Peggy Sloan

1990 Fellow
Peggy was director of planning and development for the Franklin County Commissioners, where she provided technical assistance to 26 townships in western Massachusetts.
Fellow

Jill Bubier

1988 Fellow
Jill is Marjorie Fisher Professor of Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College, where she teaches interdisciplinary environmental science. Her research focuses on northern ecosystems and biogeochemistry of peatlands, including methane...